Baby Jack

This poem is written by Nan Walshe Gibbons on stationery from Lawrence County High School in Moulton, Alabama. It is a tribute to her son John H Gibbons, called Jack. The 1920 Census, page dated 8-9, Jan, 1920, listed John (Baby Jack) as 6 months old. Baby Jack died of a respiratory condition when two […]

Ballad of TEN-FORTY-FIVE

By Howard GibbonsUniversity of AlabamaRammer JammerDate Unknown

Howard Gibbons to Brother Jimmie

From Howard Irvin Gibbons to his brother Jimmie. Thanks by Howard Gibbons

Sestina of the Singing Wind by Robert Gibbons

On my visit to Howard and Sherri I stopped by what may be the USA’s best used book store: Jim Reed Books (https://www.jimreedbooks.com/) in Birmingham, Alabama. Jim helped me find one of Uncle Bob’s works that I did not have.A sestina (according to dictionary.com) is “a poem with six stanzas of six lines and a final triplet, all stanzas having the same […]

Terse Verse by Howard Gibbons

This is a page from the University of Alabama Rammer Jammer. No date. Leaving the Bar by Howard Gibbons The Modern Easter Bonnets by Howard Gibbons

The Coming of Spring by Bob Gibbons

This poem appeared in The Wiregrass Journal, March 23, 1933. The Coming of Spring

To February by Bob Gibbons

This poem by Robert Faucett Gibbons dates to his late teen years. Published in The Wiregrass Journal probably 1933. To-February-by-Bob-Gibbons

Who is Great? by Nan Walshe Gibbons

This image comes from Mary Patt Talton. Who is Great by Nan Walshe Gibbons Who is Great? We talked of Martha Berry, her mountain schools;Of Hull House, and Jane Adams’ splendid work;Of many noble women; as we satBeneath the great, tall oaks before her house.And then:This sweet-faced, gray-haired woman sighed and said,”I wish that I […]